[Closed] Securely disposing of posted magazine wrappers

WTAF. You think your address is sensitive information?
Goodness.

As above.
Throw them in the bin and stop worrying so much.

What is exactly do you expect them to do with your address knowing your wife subscribes to Woman's Own?

If you’re that bothered, then use one of these to cover the text, then chuck in the bin...

Thanks, I expected answers both ways without explaining why, just that we do really do need to.

Edit: In that case burn them.

Well presumably you'd need to transport them to someone else's bin to dispose of.

Just out of interest, do you put stuff like orange peel in your own bin?

Confused.

Melt/burn them perhaps?
Wouldnt count as "properly" disposal since would create some unpleasant fumes but reckon it would do the trick.

Eat them

I cut the address out, snip it in horizontal cuts all the way up it not quite all the way, turn it 90 then do the same, creating loads of tiny squares with very little on them.

I'm sure it's unnecessary but I've had 1k stolen from my bank account once by identity theft so am a bit paranoid.

Besides, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you... 🤘😊🤘

Well, paranoid on not, we put them in a piece of paper that needs shredding and they go through the shredder.

I'm sure it's possible to link my name to my address, but if you had nefarious intent, then I also think it would be easier to get the neighbours info.

Wow

😲

You would think that ‘nuclear weapons expert monthly’ would be online only by now...

Burning is obvious if possible. A whole lot of my dad's financial affairs got used as firelighters in our stove over the past couple of years.

I thought all ermm specialist publications came under plain wrap anyway 🙂
Maybe burn your local library down too just in case anyone pops in there and looks you up....
and take down the internet to stop people paying a small fee to one of the companies who will divulge your name and address.
TBF my wife is just as paranoid with her address labels...where's the eye rolling emoji?

Nuke them from orbit.... it’s the only way.

How are you going to stop any Tom, Dick or Harry going to your local council offices and checking the electoral register?

Your details are public knowledge. And you wonder why millenials get a bad name!!!

Get it shredded so when BBC panorama visit a 3rd world country that's been paid to recycle our waste but they've just illegally dumped it, your name won't be dug up for us all to see on TV.

The real answer is biodegradable wrappers. The BMC Summit magazine now comes in a compostable wrapper. Are you listening Singletrack? 🙂

I'm with you op, I don't like our address with our names going in the bin. Harks back to the days when people 'binned' for info to scam. On the electoral roll, pretty sure if you've ticked the 'unpublished' box your name doesn't appear.

Given how easily the details can be stolen from the company you buy the mags from, or scraped from royal mail en-route, why not just have them delivered to another name, still at your address? I assume there's no problem the secret dump sniffing agents knowing that your house exists?

How are you going to stop any Tom, Dick or Harry going to your local council offices and checking the electoral register?

I’m not that interested.

I assume there’s no problem the secret dump sniffing agents knowing that your house exists?

Wasn’t there a thread where someone wanted their house blurring out on google maps?

Compostable wrappers for the win! Great call. Mark, Chipps what's the additional cost of this? We're doing it with one use coffee cups at our club.

Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

A bit of STW history and Google will probably reveal as much as if not more personal information.

Can sympathise with the OP. MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work(soon to be retired). We slash & Burn rather than shred & bin.....

Plastic wrappers can be recycled with supermarket bags. You would have to be keen to go through that lot. If you want it to be secure, cut the address box out and recycle that on a different week. Two if you want to separate the names.

All the paper bits get burnt or buried at our end, frankly I don't think anyone is going to be discovered that the house we live in exists, it's how you connect the meta data that's important.

Can't help feeling that if I was that paranoid about things, I'd be getting things delivered to a PO Box under a false name.

Can sympathise with the OP. MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work(soon to be retired).

Well you certainly better not go telling people about that....

Cut off the address labels and wrap them in the tin foil you throw away after making hats.

"MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work(soon to be retired)."

You never told us you're married to Theresa May!

Can sympathise with the OP. MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work

Mmmmm. no sympathy here. if it's that critical, send the mags to work or read them on line.
Its far easier to get the details from a mag mailing list than your bin
FFS

By the way. I know where you live

And what you read

Cheers

POSTIE

MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work

And she will thank you for highlighting that Im sure

Mine self-destruct after five seconds. [genuine mode] If that doesn't happen you can stretch the address bit in different directions, a bit like a swirly image effect in Photoshop. Scissors (plastic jams up in the shredder) or burn [/genuine mode]

Really ?

OP please explain more

Personally I'm more aware now off both personal online presence and all the data stored online about me (from bank to tax, council tax, car info, insurance info etc).

Just buy a garden burner and burn them if you're that worried.

Does anyone still have their name on their front door. Still common in most flats and tenements IME.

I think for me it came from getting frequent deliveries of bike parts and power tools over the years and the thinking that anything simple I can do so that there aren't big boxes knocking about on their onward journey to being pulped with Makita, Axminster Power Tools or Chain Reaction Cycles emblazoned on them along with the address where these bike parts and power tools are probably stored can't hurt.

I suppose I do that with most mail now without really thinking about it. Meh...

It's nothing to do with my security clearance 😊

Go easy on OP. He's only 22 so has had to suffer the indignities of Blair's education system. He will have a bucket load of A* grades and a couple of degrees but will know nothing that the internet hasn't told him.

It's not his fault poor dear. Unfortunately for the rest of us he is the future.

With a couple more minutes googling, I know I could work out where the husband of an ultra high security cleared MrsT lives. I would have thought there is plenty more detail for anyone with enough patience to keep looking 🙂

I’ve removed our house number and name. They might know it but they’ll never find us.

Can sympathise with the OP. MrsT has a seriously high security clearance for her work(soon to be retired). We slash & Burn rather than shred & bin…..

Some of my colleagues do too, it’s about checking you’re not dodgy, not about keeping your identity covert.

Unless of course you’re disposing of marked items at home which puts you in breach of many rules.